首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your
admin
2014-09-27
60
问题
If you intend using humor in your talk to make people smile, you must know how to identify shared experiences and problems. Your humor must be relevant to the audience and should help to show them that you are one of them or that you understand their situation and are in sympathy with their point of view. Depending on whom you are addressing, the problems will be different. If you are talking to a group of managers, you may refer to the disorganized methods of their secretaries; alternatively if you are addressing secretaries, you may want to comment on their disorganized bosses.
Here is an example, which I heard at a nurses’ convention, of a story which works well because the audience all shared the same view of doctors. A man arrives in heaven and is being shown around by St. Peter. He sees wonderful accommodations, beautiful gardens, sunny weather, and so on. Everyone is very peaceful, polite and friendly until, waiting in a line for lunch, the new arrival is suddenly pushed aside by a man in a white coat, who rushes to the head of the line, grabs his food and stomps over to a table himself. "Who is that?" the new arrival asked St. Peter. "Oh, that’s God, "came the reply, "but sometimes he thinks he’s a doctor. "
If you are part of the group which you are addressing, you will be in a position to know the experiences and problems which are common to all of you and it’ll be appropriate for you to make a passing remark about the inedible canteen food or the chairman’s notorious bad taste in ties. With other audiences you mustn’t attempt to cut in with humor as they will resent an outsider making disparaging remarks about their canteen of their chairman. You will be on safer ground if you stick to scapegoats like the Post Office or the telephone system.
If you feel awkward being humorous, you must practice so that it becomes more natu-ral. Include a few casual and apparently off-the-cuff remarks which you can deliver in a relaxed and unforced manner. Often it’s the delivery which causes the audience to smile, so speak slowly and remember that a raised eyebrow or an unbelieving look may help to show that you are making a light hearted remark.
Look for the humor. It often comes from the unexpected. A twist on a familiar quote "If at first you don’t succeed, give up" or a play on words or on a situation. Search for exaggeration and understatements. Look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.
To make your humor work, you should______.
选项
A、take advantage of different kinds of audience
B、make fun of the disorganized people
C、address different problems to different people
D、show sympathy for your listeners
答案
C
解析
细节题。第一段第三句说:你的听众不同,你要谈的问题也应不同,所以C应是正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/QIRd777K
本试题收录于:
公共英语四级笔试题库公共英语(PETS)分类
0
公共英语四级笔试
公共英语(PETS)
相关试题推荐
A80-yearoldmanfromCincinnatiinAmericaismakinglegalhistorybysuingdoctorswhosavedhiswife.EdwardWinterhaswitn
What’sthemainreasonfortheAmericanstogotothemovies?
Recentlyhousingisrecognizedasa"sociallydeterminantvariable".InFrance,housingisthemainitemofexpenditureint
D.H.LawrenceisoneofthegreatestEnglishnovelistsofthe20thcentury,and,perhaps,thegreatestfromaworking-classfam
WhatisthebasichonorintakingpartintheOlympicGames?
Manybelievethat________hasthebestchanceofbecomingauniversaltongue.
OnehundredandthirteenmillionAmericanshaveatleastonebank-issuedcreditcard.Theygivetheirownersautomaticcreditin
Howtogetoverthefirststeptowritealetter?
WheredidtheOlympiccompetitionsstart?
AnewreportbytheU.N.AIDSorganizationsfindstheglobalAIDSepidemicisworsening.Theagencysaysmorepeopleinallregi
随机试题
国家产生的主要标志有()。
红细胞释放入血液后,平均寿命为
清通设备是疏通排水管道、保障排水畅通的设备,包括( )。
高压线下两侧()以内不得安装打桩机。
容器产品焊接试板的识别标记,必须包括()。
原材料盘亏、毁损的净损失一律计入“营业外支出”科目。()
进口货物的成交价格不符合规定条件或者成交价格不能确定,在客观上无法采用货物的实际成交价格时,海关经了解有关情况,并与纳税义务人进行价格磋商后,可以按顺序采用()估定该货物的完税价格。
在下列各种财务管理目标中,有利于企业长期稳定发展,并体现了前瞻性和现实性的统一的是()。
2013年11月我国货物周转总量中,水运周转量占比在以下哪个范围之内?
关键码集合为{18,73,10,5,99,27,41,51,32,25),构造一棵二叉排序树,则关键码为68的节点的度为1.______,该树的深度为2.______。1._____A.1B.2C.3D.4
最新回复
(
0
)